What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I enjoy singing, I enjoy music as much as I enjoy photography, doing filming and stuff like that. I do a lot… — Nonito Donaire Copy Share Image
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“Seeing through the lens started to become a part of my day-to-day life and I focused on the everyday...I looked for beauty… — Lance Reynald Copy Share Image
Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this… — Willi Munzenberg Copy Share Image
1968 in Paris renewed my options. There was suddenly a desire of inventing new things, and I while I was working as… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
In a way, if and individual assumes the risk of placing himself in the middle of a war to communicate to the… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
There are things that happen so quickly. A better cameraman can capture them, but if the light is not bright and you… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
When you're in front of the camera, you have to try to create different emotions because even the person making pictures of… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I sometimes photograph my poems and get obsessive about this and spend a lot of time squatting over them but it's a… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
Anselm Kiefer made a book for me. He was taking pictures of me and my friends when we weren't posing, just all… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
Its that awkward moment when your trying to take a picture of the without them knowing…then your flash goes off. — Stacie Watts Copy Share Image
The fruit flies we work with have the equivalent of about a 25 by 25 pixel camera. But that camera is very,… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
When I'm wif wit the broad (its a photoshoot) when I hit the mall (its a photoshoot) when I'm in the club… — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
I will enjoy my past, I will enjoy the journey that I've had. But when I'm working, I will only concentrate on… — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent,… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take great pictures. — Constantine Manos Copy Share Image
My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
